I've written a bit about how I started as Guy In A Cubicle and eventually transitioned to Dotcom Thousandaire, running S3stat and Twiddla:<p><a href="http://www.expatsoftware.com/articles/guy-on-the-beach-with-a-laptop.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.expatsoftware.com/articles/guy-on-the-beach-with-...</a><p>The short version is moving to Contracting, then Consulting Remotely, then Building Products while doing same, then learning how to Market them. With a good helping of Living Cheaply thrown in to keep the burn rate down.<p>It's a nice way to go about it, since you never need to worry about running out of money, and you can move at whatever speed you like since there's always a "day job" supplementing the product revenue.<p>Even better, since the business is built to run in the background while working elsewhere, once you turn off the "working elsewhere" part, you're effectively retired.
I started <a href="http://www.manypixels.co" rel="nofollow">http://www.manypixels.co</a> last week as a side project while being a digital nomad in SE Asia.<p>It is a service that offers unlimited design services for bootstrapped startups (though we actually have one VC funded startup as a client).<p>This side project generates about $3k weekly revenue currently (though I have only one week worth of data), and about 20% of that is profit currently (though I should be able to increase that closer 30-35% in the next couple of months).
Stock trading robots, it is a lifestyle business with no customers, no employees and no investors and location independent and can be done from anywhere in the world...
1. Provide weekly personalized one-hour sales coaching for tech founders without a sales background<p>2. Built a collaboration and communication platform that provides an easier way for my sales team to communicate with potential customers<p>[1]<a href="https://www.sellsomemore.com/coaching" rel="nofollow">https://www.sellsomemore.com/coaching</a><p>[2]<a href="https://www.recapped.io" rel="nofollow">https://www.recapped.io</a>